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If they are ministers of Christ, I speak as a fool, I am greater than they; in labor more than they, in wounds more than they, in imprisonments more frequent than they, and in danger of death many times.

Therefore I am content with infirmities, insults, hardships, persecutions, and imprisonments for Christ''s sake: for when I am physically weak, then I am mentally strong.

Behold, I am foolish to boast but you have forced me: for you ought to have testified concerning me: for in no way am I less than those apostles who are highly honored, though I am nothing.

Behold, this is the third time I am prepared to come to you; and I will not burden you; for I seek nothing from you, but yourselves: for children are not under obligation to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children.

THIS is the third time I am ready to come to you, for by the mouth of two or three witnesses every charge is sustained.

I have told you before, and again I tell you in advance, just as I have told you on my two previous visits; and now even while I am far away I write to those who have sinned, and to all others, that if I come again, I will not spare any one:

Therefore I write these things while I am far away, so that when I come, I need not deal harshly with you, according to the authority which my LORD has given me, which is for your edification and not for your destruction.

I am surprised how soon you have turned to another gospel, away from Christ who has called you by his grace;

For through the law I am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

I am crucified with Christ: henceforth it is not I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life which now I live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

I am afraid that perhaps I have labored among you in vain.

Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

But it is good that you should always envy after good things, and not only when I am present with you.

My little children, for whom I am in travail again, until Christ be a reality in you,

I wish I could be with you now, and could change the tone of my voice; because I am deeply concerned about you.

But as for me, I have nothing on which to boast, except the cross of our LORD Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me and I am crucified unto the world.

FOR this cause I, Paul, am a prisoner of Jesus Christ for the sake of you Gentiles.

Even to me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ:

For which I am a messenger in chains: that I may speak openly about it, as I ought to speak.

Him I have sent to you for the same purpose, that you may know how I am, and that he may comfort your hearts.